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Strengthening Community Resilience To Severe Weather

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Tuesday, 4 February 2014: 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
Georgia Ballroom 2 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Second Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs:  Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD and Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology, Inc., Laurel, MD
Papers:
  8:30 AM
2.1
A Future Warning Concept: Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats (FACETs)
Lans P. Rothfusz, NOAA, Norman, OK; and P. T. Schlatter, E. Jacks, and T. M. Smith
Recorded Presentation

  8:45 AM
2.2
Prototype Tool Development for Creating Probabilistic Hazard Information for Severe Convective Phenomena
Chris Karstens, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NSSL/NOAA, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith, K. M. Calhoun, A. J. Clark, C. Ling, G. J. Stumpf, and L. P. Rothfusz
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1007.4 kB)

  9:00 AM
2.3
The Historic 2013 Oklahoma Tornadoes: Highlights and Success Stories from WFO Norman
Richard Smith, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK
Recorded Presentation

  9:15 AM
2.4
The Joplin Tornado: Lessons Learned from the NIST Investigation
Franklin T. Lombardo, DOC, Gaithersburg, MD; and E. Kuligowski, L. Phan, M. Levitan, and D. P. Jorgensen
Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.1 MB) Handout (1.6 MB)

  9:30 AM
2.5
The General Use of Outdoor Warning Siren Systems for Severe Weather: A National Survey of Emergency Managers
J. A. Brotzge, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and W. Donner
Recorded Presentation

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